Scribbles Galore

A group of 18 friends, including me, went out of Colombo over the weekend. We stayed over for a night but didn’t even bother to sleep ‘coz we were having such a blast. It was so nice to be with such a fun loving group and be so carefree. I don’t remember having that much fun in a long time.

I was looking forward to this weekend for weeks because the last few weeks had been so hectic and tiring and I really wanted to relax with my friends. The weekend in the end, fell nothing short of fabulous! Apart of course from a few glitches here and there.

My girlfriends and I left Colombo late because I had to attend a wedding. So it was nearly 8pm when we got to the hotel. I was in saree and my friend who drove us to the hotel was in sarong… we looked like we had planned to dress up and arrive at the hotel!!!

There was quite a bit of planning involved with the trip because it was a friend’s birthday as well. His birthday aside, getting together a group of 18 is not an easy task!

Anyway, I decided to order cake and surprise him while we were having dinner. Getting 18 people to sit in one place, including the birthday boy was not easy. I had to keep telling him to sit down but he had no clue, thankfully, because the boy was quite drunk!

When most of the group had finished dinner I gave a sign to the Food and Beverage Manager to bring the cake in. They switched the lights off in the dining room and brought the cake in with sparklers and my friend didn’t even know what was going on! Then we all started singing “Happy Birthday!” It was then that he realized!! Crazy boy!!

As the cake was cut, he walked all the way around the table, saying “Organizer! Organizer!”, to where I was seated and fed me some cake and rubbed some icing on my face. I thought that was really sweet of him. No one has done that before for me. What usually happens is that we feed our parents when the cake is cut… so I was pretty darn touched!

After the whole cake cutting ceremony was done, we headed off to the beach where it was now time to have a few drinks. Those few hours were so much fun. We just talked and laughed and drank and took photographs and it was amazing!

We even went to the club at the hotel and danced for a good two hours at least. As if that was not enough, we then went to another club, out of the hotel, ‘Lords’. It was quite dull. When we got back to the hotel around half past four, some of the group was still awake.

We were having so much fun that we didn’t want to sleep and we didn’t. We were talking so… much that when we looked out onto the beach the sun was rising! The boys decided to jump into the pool and the girls and I decided to have a shower and get ready for breakfast. That too was a fun experience. It was as though we had our very own personal dining hall. It did not bother us in the least that there were so many people around. No one seemed to bother us either, I think it was because they all saw how much fun we were having.

Lunch too was fun and so was just sitting with these guys and doing nothing. Even packing up into the vehicles to get back home was fun because, we had two cars and 14 people! We were pretty much like sardines!

I think that when you are with people you enjoy being with, you really don’t have to do much to have fun. The presence of the people you care about, is what matters in the end.

I am so glad that I can be with people who have such a blast no matter where they are and no matter what they do.

So cheers to the weekend we had and cheers to many more weekends of the sort to come!